Psychological studies- aims

To invesigate whether or not adults diagnosed with AS have thoery of mind. he also wanted to find out whther males or females in the ' Normal' group would do better in the eyes task.

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Loftus and Palmer (Eyewitness testimony)

To investigate how information supplied after an event, influences a witness' memory for that event

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Savage Rumbaugh (language acquisition)

To investigate the language acqusition capabilities of pygmy chimps and compare it to that of the common chimp

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Reicher and Haslam (Prison study)

To investigate if dominant group members will identify with their group from the start, and to study the interactions between dominant and subordinate groups

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Milgram (Authorit figures)

To deomonstrate the power of a legitimate authority even when a command requires destructive behaviour

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Piliavin (Bystander effect)

To investigate, in a natural setting, factors that may influence bystander behaviour; Type of victim, race of victim, impact of modelling and group size

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Rosenhan (Sane or Insane?)

To test the hypothesis that psychiatrists cannot reliably diagnose those considered to be sane or insane.

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Thigpen and Cleckley (3 faces of Eve)

To provide an account of the psychotheraputic treatment of a 25 year old woman, diagnosed with MPD

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Griffiths (Gambling)

To investigate the cognitive bias involved in gambling behavior, (hypotheses- there's no difference between NRGs and Rgs in skill, RGs produce more irrational verbalisations, RGs regard themselves as more skilled than NRGs)

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Samuel and Bryant

Challenge Piaget's theories of conservation in cildren, using a slightly altered version of piagets experiments

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Bandura

To demonstarte that if children were passive witnesses to agression, wheng iventhe opportunity they will act in a similar way

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Freud

To report the treatment of a 5 year old boy for his phobia of horses

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Maguire (Hippocampi)

Inestigate whether change could be detected in the brains of Taxi-drivers and to further investigate the function of the Hippocampi in spatial memory